tftp

[Ray Bell]

How can I turn this function off on my HP9000 servers? Beside xterminal using this function what else is it use for?

[Cheryl Griffin]

Ignite uses tftp.

To turn tftp off, you would comment it out in /etc/services, then restart inetd:
# inetd -c

Cheryl

[Ray Bell]

Hoes does ignite use tftp? Is it just for the gui version only? I don't use the gui anyway so if this is what ignite use ut then still there would be no problem.

[Jordan Bean]

Cheryl, don't you want to comment out the tftp entry in /etc/inetd.conf? It isn't necessary to mess with /etc/services.

Ray, it is possible to boot and install/recover a HP 9000 server over the network via tftp to an Ignite server.

[Hamdy Al-Sebaey]

Rey,

As Cheryl told you,vi /etc/services
just mark tftp,
then do the following # inetd -c or
#/sbin/init.d/inetd stop,start.

Regards,
Hamdy

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

ignite uses tftp to download mini kernels.

xterms as you mention use it to download boot kernels, Xservers and apps - unless of course they're configured to use NFS.

Later,
Bill

[Ray Bell]

As Jordan stated who we want to comment out the one in /etc/inetd.conf as well. I had the tftp comment out in /etc/service but I can still tftp to the site so this is why I ask for assistance. I will do the /etc/inetd.conf file and rested it and see if that will make a different.

Thanks!!!

[Geetha Alagappan]

Jordan is right - commenting it out in the /etc/inetd.conf and restarting inetd should disable it. It is needed by ignite only when you ignite the system from a Ignite server across the network and not from a ignite tape on the same machine.